Archive for March, 2007
Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
"It's a hell of a time for him to go. We really need him now."
- Joe Simon (co-creator of Captain America)
While Peter Parker and his alter-ego Spider-Man have long been the iconic representation of the layperson (or everyperson) -- the ordinary guy who, by accident rather than intent, became a ...
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Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
The races for party nomination and the Presidential election in the US always tend to bring out the most creative political media and mashups. The first great political video of the 2008 race is definitely Hillary 1984, which mashes up one of Apple's most famous advertisements from 1984, using ...
Posted in advertising, citizen journalism, convergence, mashup, participatory culture, politics, youtube | 5 Comments »
Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
ABC buys an island in an online world (Michael Bodey, MARCH 19, 2007) [Australian IT]
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has purchased an island in Second Life and is developing it as part of their new online innovations.
(tags: secondlife australia)
Bloggers turn up heat on Zimbabwe [BBC NEWS | Africa]
"Turmoil in Zimbabwe ...
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Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
In conjunction with their purchase of a Second Life Island, the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) dedicated a full Four Corners programme to exploring the world of Second Life. It was actually quite a fair representation of SL (at least, as I understand it, only having spent a few hours ...
Posted in australia, documentary, participatory culture, second life, virtual enviroments | No Comments »
Monday, March 19th, 2007
web 1-2-3 [apophenia]
danah boyd's web3.0: "I believe that geographic-dependent context will be the next key shift. GPS, mesh networks, articulated presence, etc. People want to go mobile and they want to use technology to help them engage in the mobile world..."
(tags: web2.0 web3.0 danahboyd)
twittersearch
Y'know ... to search ... Twitter.
(tags: twitter ...
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Sunday, March 18th, 2007
Battlestar Font [dafont.com]
THe Battlestar Galactica font. Nifty.
(tags: battlestargalactica dont)
the last show [the show with zefrank]
Ze Frank's year-long daily vlog comes to an end. It's been a great ride, sportsracers ...
(tags: zefrank vlog)
The Several Habits of Wildly Successful Twitter Users [Slacker Manager]
Given the amount of Twitteration about Twitter, advice ...
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Saturday, March 17th, 2007
Massive ice deposits found on Mars. [16/03/2007. ABC News Online]
"Scientists say they have found huge deposits of ice on the south pole of Mars that are so plentiful they would blanket the planet in 11 metres of water if they were liquid. The deposits are up to 3.7 kilometres thick ...
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Friday, March 16th, 2007
What happens after Google loses? [Scobleizer - Tech Geek Blogge]
Scoble predicts that Viacom will get its $1billion in 2008, but user-created content will continue to become king. (And Viacom will destroy a lof of public goodwill in the process.)
(tags: scoble youtube google viacom legal)
Mourners bid farewell on internet [BBC ...
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Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Four anti-Google Book Search fallacies — all in one, single essay [Lawrence Lessig]
Larry Lessig looks at four of the key misconceptions in the debate about Google Books and copyright issues. (The comments on this post are also good reading, showing some of the complexities of the issues involved.)
(tags: copyright ...
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Wednesday, March 14th, 2007
There's been a lot of talk about 300, which is now, financially at least, the first big blockbuster of 2007. Leaving aside Iran's outrage at the film's depiction of their history, one of the most interesting elements of the film was the clever and canny marketing strategies which found ...
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